Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-01-06
General Logan Dead.
THE SOLDIER AND STATES
MAN PASSES AWAY.
A SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.

| TO bis family and frlendS, nad not Deen
unexpected by his physician for some
days. The lurking tendency to brain
complications which had been present
in a greater or less degree and con-
stantly increasing In severity during
his entire illness had prepared them to
expect the worst. The racking pains
which he suffered during the early
days of his illness yielded to treatment
but left him in a weak and exhausted
condition, from which he meyer rallied,
and upon which the fever preyed with
increasing violence until the hour OF
his death.
While the public has been aware for
a week or more that General Logan
was confined to his room with rheuma.
tism, many even of his most intimate
personal friends were as late as yester-
day afternoon unsuspicious of the ser :
ious character of the attack, and to the
masses the announcement in this morn.
ing's papers that the statesman lay at
Deaths door brought q shock OF sor-
rowful surprise. All day long the car
riages of sympathetic callers have oc-
cupied the space In front OF Calumet
place, while hundreds of pedestrians OF
all walks in life have climbed the hill
upon which the Logan mansion stands
to ask if 1t were true that all hope was
past.
General John Alexander Logan
has been prominent in political and
Congressional life for the past thirty
years. He was the son OF DR.. John
Logan, native of Ireland, who emf.
grated to Murphysboro', Illinois. in
1923, and there married in the follow
ing year Elizabeth Jenkins. OF Tennes-
see. General Logan was born Febru-
ary 9th, 1926. His father, a country
practitioner of medicine, taught him to
read and write, and gave him the ru.
diments of an education. He worked
on the farm until his nineteenth year,
when, on the breaking out of the Mex
lean war, he enlisted as private in the
First Regiment of Illinois, Of which
regiment he became Lieutenant and
before the close of the war Adjutant.
On his return home in the fall OF lS4S
he entered the office of his uncle, Alex
ander M. Jenkins, with whom hs stud.
led law. His first political office was
won in 1S49, when he was made clerk
of Jackson county. Having finished
his law studies in 1851, he entered in
to pal tnership with his uncle. and in
the following year was elected Prose
cutting Attorney of the Third Judicial
District Of Illinois. In the fall OF the
same year he was elected member OF
the State Legislature on the Democrat
ic ticket. In the State Legislature he
became prominent on account OF his
forcible speeches, and In 1856 was made
a Presidential elector for the State or
Illinois and cast his vote for James
Buchanan for Pesident. His speeches
on the stump gave him such promi-
nence that in 1853 he was elected q
member of Congress, and tock his seat
in December, 1859. To this seat ne
was reelected in 1860, but left 1t to go
to the front. He served at the first
battle of Bull Run as a private In a
Michigan regiment of volunteers.
Previous to this time he had been q
Democrat in politics, but on the out
break of the war he became q deter
mined Unionist. After the battle OF
Bull Run he returned to Congress, and
in powerful speech he urged upon the
Government the nee essity OF raising
sufficient force to put down the rebels
in arms against the United States. In
September he resigned his seat, return
ed to Illinois and raised regiment or
Illinois Infantry, OF which he was com"
missioned Colonel. His war record
was remarkable for dash and brilliancy,
and he rose to the rank OF Major Gen.
efal before the close of the rebellion.
At the Republican nominating con-
vention of 1884, General Logan was
delegate from Illinois. After the
convention had reassembled and after
nominating Hon. James G.. Blaine
for President, General John A. Lo-
gan was unanimously nominated for
Vice President on the same ticket.
In May 1885 General Logan was re-
elected United States Senator.
He was married in 1856, when Mrs.
Logan was but 16 years old. but she
had already, by her services to her faith
er, who was sheriff of the county, clerk
of the court, and register of the land
Office, shown her value as help-mate.
In all General Logan's life, whether in
the political or the martial field, she ac-
companied her husband whenever poss-
ible, and assisted in every way his ad'
yancement among men. Among both
sexes and all classes she is universally
admired for her bravery and genius,
transacting almost all OF hel